Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Saint John Chrysostom
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There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe by those who don't believe.

Dennis Prager
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In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.

Mark Twain
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Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue.

Titus Livy
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Socrates
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus
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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant
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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Abraham Cowley
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings
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We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world.

Michael De Marsche
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I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Jim Parker
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Virtue on earth is persecuted ever; the envious die, but envy never.

Moliere
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We wanted to plan a celebration that would be the envy of Dubuque.

Michael Mcdonald
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I don't envy China. I wish to emulate China.

Palaniappan Chidambaram
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Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In a blue state, the party of a red governor has the Democrats appearing green with envy.

David Mccuan
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I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

Ned Zachar
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The survivors would envy the dead.

Nikita Khrushchev
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag
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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Ambrose Bierce
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I do not envy the British Cabinet or the Bush administration their choice.

Douglas Hurd
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More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Thomas Babington Macaulay
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The blind envy the one-eyed.

Juvenal
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Kannapolis is the envy of the nation.

Gene Mccombs
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Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Bible
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After a while you have to envy these people because they have community.

Johnny Vaughan
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When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

Dame Edith Sitwell
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Getting 17 homes to all agree and pick a color. I don't envy you.

John Petrashek
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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Chi Chi Rodriguez
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Education is the key to a better economy and a controlled population. Until now, the world blamed India for its huge population, but now it could envy it.

Bikram Sen
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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton
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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton
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No, there's not a lot to envy about the old days. But something has been lost.

Ronald Blythe
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Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Jean Vanier
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Churchill
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